2013/05/05

Khurasan Kristmas

So last fall, just before we moved to our new house, I ordered some mini's from Khurasan Miniatures. Why may you ask, am I just reviewing them now, well I had my mini's packed away and haven't really got to the boxes till this weekend. So lets take a peek at what I got in the mail last Fall.

First off are Felid Warriors.

Felid heavy Battle Circle.

Close up of main figs in the Heavy Battle Circle.

Felid PrideGuard Elite Warriors.

Close up of Minis from PrideGuard set.

Felid Pouncer Portable Missile launcher.

Felid Barron in command battle dress.

Felid Hostage Barron's' sons jet bike squad.

Felid Light battle circle main figs. 10 mini's in total.

When I first saw these last year I knew I had to have
them. I've always loved the idea of Cat people and even better Cat
people in armour. The other reason was that I was sick of the "typical
alien" foes out there and thought these would be a great antagonist for
my GZG UNSC. As you can see from the pic they are all nice casts.

I especially like the Barron commander in what appears to be power armour (what I'm going to coin it as). The pose is stoic and the armour is just wonderful! I also like the Helmet that is stowed on the rear hip, and what appears to be com equipment mounted on the back.

All mini's except the "PrideGuard" and Barron Boys are in bare heads. The Pride Guard have helmets, but IMO they seem to be a bit to small for the size of heads, tight fit for the ears too. Saying that I like the design of the helmet and they fit the race if, again, a bit small. All minis appear to have laser type weapons, pistols, rifles and heavy MG's or would that be Heavy Machine Lasers?

When I bought the mini's the only support sets where the Pouncer Missile system. Again nice molds and the remote is a nice touch.
The jet bikes are VERY nice, featuring a single piece body that is wonderfully cast with great detail. The torso of the riders is molded separately and 2 poses are given. A choice of weapons are given with 3 energy weapons inserts and one rocket-launcher insert. I can't really say anything bad about these mini's at all. They are very crisp molds and look great.

Again Khurasan does a great job with these mini's. They definitely look the part of USCM equipped with Pulse Rifles , Smart Guns, Flamers, Sniper Rifles and SADAR which only appears in the Colonial Marines tech manual. Again finesse has been applied to these mini's , from the body armour, to the helmet mounted cameras and right down to the Smart Gun eye piece. As a matter of fact one of the Smart gun mini's looks very much like Private Drake, while the other his partner Vasquez.

The Extreme Environment suited dudes look right out of the Colonial Marines Tech Manual or out of Alien!

Again they are all equipped with Pulse Rifles and Smart Guns. The casting is the same as the rest reviewed excellent!

One of the additions is this niffty little kit of the sentry gun.

And of course they need the APC:

M2189 Caiman Heavy Infantry Combat vehicle.

I just love this AFV. The Casting is amazing with no bubbles, super crisp and great detail. And well it looks very much the part.

Of course if you have Colonial marines you need Aliens!

Space Demons.

Again Khurasan doesn't disappoint. These look the part and with 2 different choices of heads you can do either Alien, or Aliens aliens. What's the difference? Giger's alien had a smooth head and was very tall where as Winston's Aliens had boney ridges on the head as well as being smaller and more insect or spindly like.

Alien

Aliens

Of course you get 12 mini's in 4 different dynamic poses and again cast to perfection.

The only mistake I made with this line was to order the King Space Demon instead of the Queen.

King Space Demon

As you can see from the picture the King comes with a normal Alien head, but what I really wanted was the Queen head and Khurasan provides with there Queen Space Demon.

"Get away from her you Bitch!"

The final thing I picked up was the Tracked Super heavy Tank and Super Heavy it is!

Super heavy Tank.

Super Heavy Tank with Smart Gun dude.

Again the resin cast is superb! Fine molding, great detail, a few bubbles and this tank just looks the part. Tracks, remote guns systems and cupola covers are molded in metal. All in all a great tank for my GZG "ODST" troops previously reviewed.

So final thought, GREAT buy from Khursan and can't wait to get my hands on their Modern US Army and M1 Abrams!

2 comments:

I love the marines too. great minis. i dont know what rules you use for them but ive been using Gruntz 15mm . I find it works well as it lets you build your own stats for your units. Will keep watching too see what you do when you paint yours up.